Feb. 20 at 7:46 AM
$DNA
Ginkgo Bioworks is evolving from a traditional biotech company into the infrastructure layer of the bio-economy. Instead of betting on one drug, it builds the tools that thousands of programs depend on automated labs, AI-guided organism design, and scalable manufacturing biology. As self-driving labs accelerate discovery, Ginkgo benefits from every experiment run on its platform, creating a compounding data advantage similar to a cloud provider in software. Each partnership improves its models, lowers costs, and increases switching barriers for customers. This turns biology from slow trial and error into predictable engineering. With governments and industries pushing domestic manufacturing, sustainable chemicals, rapid response to health threats, the demand for programmable biology keeps expanding. If biology becomes an industry rather than a science, Ginkgo doesn’t just participate it powers the operating system behind it, positioning the company for durable, long-term growth.